Movie Feast

Saw these three movies today:

1. Gilda: Had heard a lot about this one but somehow it did not embark upon its reputation in my eyes. Rita Hayworth looks incredibly beautiful.

2. Being Julia: A very nice, feel good movie. Nice acting!! The best part were the heart felt giggles of the main character, Julia played by Annete Benign. 

3. The Constant Gradener : Wonderfully astounding!!! A movie of great caliber. Superior direction and the truly justified acting. Had not seen such a movie in many days. The movies of this sort make you want to watch them and never ever forget. A masterpiece. Ralpf Fiennes and Rachel Weisz couldn't have done better and noone else could have suited the role better. Cheerio for the whole movie crew.

The Importance of Being Earnest

Just finished this piece of work by Oscar Wilde…i must say it was an amazing thing to read. I got absolute entertainment from it which was much required at this point of time in my life. Set up in the English countryside and London partly, the story builds up on a lie, its consequences and finally ends up showing that the lie was the truth.

A character pretends all the while that he is Mr. Ernest while he is not and finally what is known that he was actually Mr. Ernest but he was ignorant of it all the while. Hence the title of the story :”The Impotance of Being Earnest” .The word earnest has been made use of beautifully here. There is also a lot of humor in the story and the fact that it is quite a short novel(it took me less than 2 hrs) makes it even more interesting to read.

ending here,

~ShallowOcean

wandering brain

Why does it so happen that at those most crucial moments, when you need your brain the most, it will do all except being there for you?? With me this problem has recently popped up. Earlier i used to have a nice concentration but now…i will think everything else except the subject. Like just now, i have to prepare for my exam and my mind would think all about the embarrasing moments of my life and other garbage. How i wish that i could tame my mind and instruct it to do what is right for the moment.

Hoping that righteousness prevails:

Regards,

~ShallowOcean 

Diplomacy

I have often heard people saying that they hate diplomats. Why?? I would like to ask to them?? What is wrong about it?? Is it not good to be able to keep everyone happy and content? Is it not good that you are making the best of the given situation??. Is it always good to be straight forward and hurting people just because you are straight forward and hence you are nice. Why can the diplomatic people not be nice?? I guess many people assume that the diplomats are hypocrites. Well, i think that these two are entirely different traits and cannot be correlated. But again, it comes to a personal opinion. I think that there is nothing wrong with the diplomacy while others might think that diplomacy is a horrible thing…

 More on this later..

ciao

~ ShallowOcean 

Melodrama of Life

The "so-called-friendship" is a very wierd thing. One should never get into it. You start expecting things even after knowing the fact that you ought not to. When the expectations are not met..feelings are hurt! and for those of a highly emotional nature..scars are left on the heart for quite a long time to come ,if not for eternity.

This post comes from one such hurt feeling of mine as a result of the nature of friendship described above. Dramatics is a good thing but suits only on stage. In real life, it really can be painful. They said: "life is a drama" and i did not give much thought about it. Now, i endorse this fact as strongly as one could ever had endorsed anything. I am a witness to one such play with real life characters. Hoping not to see such a melodrama again in the near future.

good luck
~ShallowOcean

Mathematics

Few days back i read a blog in which the author shared his disappointment about the lack of path breaking discoveries in the field of mathematics by Indians despite the fact that indians are generally considered to be fairly well in Maths.

One plain and simple reason which i can clearly see is that the brains that are expected to make path breaking discoveries do not pursue mathematics at the level of research( rather after school ). The IITians themselves, how many of them take up mathematics?? A mere 15 out of 400 in one IIT. They too take that because it must have been slightly better than the options available( barring a few exceptions off course and i am one of them ..it is another thing that i am not performing well ). So, when generally not so interested people pursue it , we forget about discoveries.

To bring more indians in the scene of valuable mathematical research it is important that people be made to pursue mathematics who are genuinely interested in it. I myself see many great mathematical minds being wasted( well not exactly :)) in other departments when they could have immensely contributed to the world of mathematics.

When this situation changes , when people see that pure science is not equal to dust and is equally or may be even more important than the applied sciences ,then will definitely come the day when there are big Indian names in the world mathematics research.

15th April-nothing special

Today was the departmental farewell. Was not good enough. Neither did people turn up for bidding adieu nor did people come to get fared well. Anyway, a strange story came out from one of the retiring professors. In fact, that was the story. Inspite of having served for 35 years in the institute he was not promoted from associate professor to the position of professor. It became quite awkward at that time when he was on stage saying all this but i think that he did a good thing by bringing the things out. At least we came to know that something of the kind has happened. No one knows what is the exact truth. Whether it was some reason and that too a very strong one to have done this to him or was it pure and plain politics ?? Even if it was why against him only??

Well, i am not very curious to know the intricate details but hearing this certainly made me very sad about the fact that whole life of a person can go unrewarded. The thought of it itself is very horrifying. I always thought that hard work ( or for that matter, even work) was rewarded.
Now I know otherwise too.

About the room thingy that i wrote yesterday ,the every-third-hour problem continued to pester me today also. I don't know when will we get rid of it. I did not study a word today and by word i mean a word. Fresh beginnings have to be made.

Goodbye,
~ShallowOcean

P.S. : Got a work to do in the summers and am even getting paid for it. Heck!! so what if it just a nominal amount. It will be my earning.

Exhausted!!

Many a times there are days when whatever you put your hands into gets spoiled..and that exactly was the day yesterday ( 14th April’ 2006). It will be hard to forget this day. So much fight for getting a favourite room in the hostel!!!…Me and my wingiez needed a total of 5 rooms together and the whole day just went out figuring that how it should be done and how to get it . Every two hours we got assured that we will get it and the next hour there was a news waiting that ruined the prospects. Then there were troubles with some other people on an unrelated topic. Then it was felt that we needed to study as endsems are just 7 days away..so we resolved that we would have a night out studying. The plan was to eat something and then resume the studies but as i told you, today was a day of complete failure in whatever we did. Now, went to the CC canteen to find out that everything had just finished. Got a packet of biscuits and came back. Then we thought why not try the hostel canteen may be there we will get something ..No sir!!!..nothing to eat there too….ended u buying a packet of kurkure and came back to my room to have a peace of mind, listen to some music, blog about the day passed and then get back to work..

While i was writing about the trouble springing up every third hour, in my mind i was thinking it was all over now BUT alas!! while i was writing this blog …i came to know that there has been again some problem in the room shifting thing…(phew!!)
simply dying to get it over with…it is too much of a tension for my pea sized brain. We are thinking of naming 14th april as the “room allocation day”.
i just hope the morning sees me calmer and collected…

keeping my fingers crossed so that no other thing comes up in at least the coming two dreadful weeks of preparation and examination.
I am completely exhausted at this point of time and night out seems the last thing to do on earth…
Lord save me and my studies…

trying to cheer
~ShallowOcean

Capote — a must watch

If you are a movie lover, don't waste a single minute. Go watch capote. If you are not a movie lover, take your time but then definitely watch it. You will start loving movies. Well, its not the best movie ever made but it is ceratinly one of the top class ones. I am glad that i did not postpone it for too long. Seymour Hoffman is awesome. Complete justice to the oscar which went to him. He totally deserved it. So, i have now seen 3.5(!) movies out of the 5 nominated for best picture. So have to finish the remaining 1.5 soon.

Had a night out today but not studying. God please give me sense so that i study for the exams that are going to come after just 9 days. Help needed.

 good morning

~ShallowOcean 

The Protest

I am writing exactly after 1 month. A lot has occured in the meanwhile and i was obviously very busy (the reason i could not write)..So there were holi vacations..enjoyed a lot..then came back to celebrate the Hall Day..mixed feelings of tiredness, excitement, relief and tension…
next were the elections and the handing over and the general body meeting…just one emotion..get rid of it as soos as you can…
and finally today was the protest march against the reservation policy of the government. What an illogical thing to think about. Can the selfishness shut your eyes sooo much that you cannot even see the natural and obvious things??
well, it was a silent protest march all around the campus and was covered by media also. and there were a lot of personal stints also …shameless me but neway this was a good experience and really showed the concern of the junta towards the issue which is drastically going to affect the future generation.
I hope this showing of anger does some good and opens the blindfolds.
Details later..
till then
cheers
~ShallowOcean